Type-IIB colliding plane waves

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1419-1449

  Gutperle, Michael ^a   Pioline, Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044457190     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/061     Document Type: Article

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